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Concentrate   /kˈɑnsəntrˌeɪt/   Listen
Concentrate

verb
(past & past part. concentrated; pres. part. concentrating)
1.
Make denser, stronger, or purer.
2.
Direct one's attention on something.  Synonyms: center, centre, focus, pore, rivet.
3.
Make central.  Synonyms: centralise, centralize.
4.
Make more concise.  Synonyms: condense, digest.
5.
Draw together or meet in one common center.
6.
Compress or concentrate.  Synonyms: condense, contract.
7.
Be cooked until very little liquid is left.  Synonyms: boil down, decoct, reduce.
8.
Cook until very little liquid is left.  Synonyms: boil down, reduce.
noun
1.
The desired mineral that is left after impurities have been removed from mined ore.  Synonym: dressed ore.
2.
A concentrated form of a foodstuff; the bulk is reduced by removing water.
3.
A concentrated example of something.



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"Concentrate" Quotes from Famous Books



... was riding just below the summit of the ridge, occasionally uplifting his head so as to gaze across the crest, shading his eyes with one hand to thus better concentrate his vision. Both horse and rider plainly exhibited signs of weariness, but every movement of the latter showed ceaseless vigilance, his glance roaming the barren ridges, a brown Winchester lying cocked across the saddle pommel, his left hand taut on the rein. Yet the horse he bestrode scarcely ...
— Keith of the Border • Randall Parrish
... of artistic ideals. The past, whether in the West or the East, when railways, telegraphs, telephones, newspapers, and all the adjuncts of modern progress were unknown, was the period when men did good and enduring work. They could then concentrate their minds upon their art free from those hundred-and-one discomposing and disconcerting influences which are the concomitants of modern civilisation. The true artist thinks only of his art; for ...
— The Empire of the East • H. B. Montgomery
... that quiet, iron look change but once. I will tell you about it. It was one of those days after the battle of Trenton, when he tried to concentrate the troops that he had scattered over the country, to bring them to bear upon the British. His object was to show the enemy that they could not ...
— Who Spoke Next • Eliza Lee Follen
... it happened, that three minutes after entering the room she was told to take her place beside the girl who had gone last to the board, and whose flushed face and angry eyes avoided meeting Elnora's. Being compelled to concentrate on her proposition she forgot herself. When the professor asked that all pupils sign their work she firmly wrote "Elnora Comstock" under her demonstration. Then she took her seat and waited with white lips and trembling limbs, as one after ...
— A Girl Of The Limberlost • Gene Stratton Porter
... it difficult to concentrate his attention. His gaze kept wandering back to the fire, in whose glowing depths he fancied he could see a perfect oval face with pleading eyes and dazzling ...
— Okewood of the Secret Service • Valentine Williams


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